Many of the rituals and procedures of selecting a new pope — designed to ensure secrecy and an orderly transition — have ...

The papal conclave will be influenced by Pope Francis, whose picks to the College of Cardinals increased its geographic ...

To honor the Holy Father’s life and legacy, the SLO Mission will ring its bells 88 times on Monday afternoon — a papal ...

The death of the 88-year-old pontiff puts into motion the process of selecting a successor, according to longstanding Vatican ...

Tens of thousands of mourners began saying their last goodbyes to Pope Francis at St Peter`s Basilica Wednesday, as ...

Thousands of people filed through the central aisle of St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects to Pope Francis on ...

Andrew Medichini/AP Photos According ... next leader of the Catholic Church. The cardinals gather in the Vatican for discussions and prayerful deliberation before entering the conclave, where ...

Wardruna mainman Einar Selvik has named what he believes to be a benefit from the infamous black ... Lutheran church was the state religion of Norway and banned Jews from entering the country.

The Church is currently in “sede vacante”, or “the vacant See”. This happened at the moment of the Pope’s death. The secret meeting of cardinals, known as the conclave, usually beings between 15 and ...

That’s always going to cause conflicts”: How Dimmu Borgir made an irreligious symphonic black metal classic with ... It decreed that the Evangelical-Lutheran church was the state religion of Norway ...